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The cause isn’t known. The patient typically has experienced abuse, commonly sexual, or another form of emotional trauma in childhood. A child may evolve multiple personalities to dissociate herself from the traumatic situation. The dissociated contents become linked with one of many possible shaping influences for personality organization.
Dissociative identity disorder usually begins in childhood, but patients seldom seek treatment until much later in life. The disorder is three to nine times more common in women than in men.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
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